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Big Idea: I think the big idea is that life is so fast that you can't overlook it. You can't waste time. You can't revisit a time like Emily did. You have to live everyday like it's your last.

Favorite Line: "Do humans beings ever realize life while they live it?- every, every minute?" (Wilder 108)

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Favorite Line: "I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at at one another.I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Good-by, Good-by World. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. (Wilder 108)

Big Idea: I think that my big idea for Our Town will have to be, live life to the fullest because you never know when it will end. I chose this because Emily's life ends very quickly and at a young age. We need to live life everyday like it's our last because we don't know God's plan for us.

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Favorite Line: "We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones tha

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Big Idea: Life goes by too fast, so make sure you cherish it. I chose this line because Emily was having regrets when she was in the grave, and she realized how fast her life went by and she regretted not cherishing it more.
Golden Line: "I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another" (Wilder 108).

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Big Idea: My big idea is that you have to step back and look at life in the bigger picture. You can advantage of life, you will never know when it ends and it could end for you at anytime. You have to spend time with the people you love because pretty soon time will run out and you will be up in heaven.

Favorite line: my favorite line was when Emily asks all of the dead, "does anybody ever realize life while they live it?" -Wilder page 108

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Big Idea: My big idea is that don't take anything for granted. I chose this big idea because emily had her whole life set up in front of her. She had a husband 1 kid and a nice house on a farm. It was taken away from her in an instant when she had her second child.
Golden line: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it---every, every minute?"
I chose this line because she thought that life went way to fast for her and no one realize the small things that happen in life.

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Big Idea: Make the most of every moment and enjoy them while they last.
I chose this big idea because Emily regretted how she lived her life. She took her life for granted until she passed away.

Favorite Line: "You know as well as I do that the dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they lose hold of the earth...and the ambitions they had...and the pleasures they had...and the things they suffered...and the people they loved,(Wilder 88).
I chose this line because it was interesting to me that everyone at the grave was calm except Emily. She wanted to go back.

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Big Idea - Don't take all the little moments for granted, enjoy them because you are not going to always have them.

Favorite Line - "Y’know the dead don’t stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth—and the ambitions they had—and the pleasures they had—and the things they suffered—and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth." I chose this line because at the time Emily was so different from everyone. She cared so much and the others didn't. I think this brought out the truth in this line because it showed how when you first get there you care, but eventually you lose that caring for the earth.

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Favorite Line: "We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings."

I chose this line, because it's so true in our lives. When we die, all of the earthly things go away, but our soul is eternal in us.

Big Idea: Live life to the fullest while you have it.

I chose this big idea statement because Emily and George take their life for granted while Emily is alive. After Emily dies, George is a very glum and sad man, while before, when she was alive, he was full of life and happiness. Also, when Emily went back to her 12th birthday, she realized that she took for granted all the small moments.

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My favorite line from the play is probably "Charles! Don't forget, it's Emily's birthday. Did you remember to get her something?" I think at this moment Emily realizes that humans really are blind and that she does not want to go back. This ends up leading to one of the most sad moments in the play so that is why I chose it. The big idea I have for Our Town is live every second to the fullest. I choose this because you never know how long that you have left on earth. That is my golden line and big idea for Our Town

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Favorite Line - "That's all human beings are! Just blind people" (Wilder 109). If it takes someone dying for them to realize how precious life, we need to take that hint. If we don't appreciate life while we have it, it will be gone before we know it. We need to realize how lucky and blessed we are before our time runs out.
Big Idea - You get one shot at life. Don't miss.

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Big Idea: "Time is your currency. Don't waste a single coin."(Pullman Car Hiawatha). Time is so precious and yet we humans never know how much we have. Only God knows. We need to recognize life while we live it. To make every memory and moment precious.
Favorite Line: EMILY: I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back-up the hill- to my grave. But first: Wait! one more look...Oh earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?
STAGE MANAGER: No. The saints and poets, maybe--they do some.
MRS. GIBBS: Were you happy?
EMILY: No...I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people. (Wilder 108-109)

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Big Idea: Life is a gift. Live it while it lasts. Live it like everyday is your last. I think that this is a very important is because nobody ever realizes that life could instantly end. Death is something we are not in control of.
Golden Line:
“EMILY:
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?
STAGE MANAGER:
No.
The saints and poets, maybe---they do some,” (Wilder 108).
I chose this line because it shows how no one realizes life is a gift. They need to live like there is no tomorrow and live life to the fullest and live it while it lasts.

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Big Idea: Cherish every moment as if it is your last. Emily thinks about this when she goes back to her 12th birthday. She realizes that her community was just going through life, not really living it. Emily asked the stage manager if humans ever realize how great their lives are while they live it. Someday, we're all going to die. We just don't realize how wonderful the little things in our life are until we lose them.

Golden Line: “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?” (Wilder 108)

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Favorite Line:
"Stage Manager: You not only live it; but you watch yourself living it"(Wilder 99).
Big Idea: Be careful for what you wish for because you might just get it.
I chose this big idea because Emily said she wish she were dead, and she did die. Also, I chose the stage manager line because he tells Emily what will happen when she goes back.

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Big Idea: Live life in the moment. Take every minute and be grateful. You only have one life; make the most of it.

Golden Line: Do any human beings every realize life while they live it? - every every minute?

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My big idea is that once you have lived your life, you can't go back and relive those times. So make the most of every moment. Focus on the moment, and not what you will do next.
My golden line is spoken by Emily at the end of the play. "Does any human beings every realized life while they live it?- every, every minute." (Wilder 108).

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Favorite lines:
"Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you." (Wilder, 108)
"There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being." (Wilder 88)
“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?”
(Wilder 108)
Big Idea:
My big idea would be "Cherish every moment". I chose this big idea because I think we all take our life for granted at some point and time. "From the flight of a hawk to the beaming moon, blaze like the miracles they are."

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Big Idea: Don't take anything for granted, and cherish your life. This is my big idea because in the play Emily realizes that she needed to realize life while she lived it, not realize it after she died.
Favorite Line: "We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names and it ain't earth and it ain't even the stars... everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings(Wilder 88). I chose this line because it illustrates what the play is about, and that it is true for all of us.

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I think that the big Idea for this play is death, and life. like what was said in the video, he said that there was a young paper boy and the stage manager told us right away that he would die in the war and even when Emily died there was still the fact that she brought life into the world even though she died.
A passage that I like is "Do any human being ever realize life while they live it? - every every minute?" (Wilder 108) We all just seem to go through life so fast and tend to take for granted the life that we are given and the things around us and before we know it everything will be gone. Like Simon Stimson said "To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To always be at the mercy of one self-centered passionor another." (Wilder 109) Is what life is like.

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Big Idea: We'll never fully understand how blessed we really are.
God blesses us over and over again throughout our life, and sometimes, we don't see these things as blessings.

Golden Line: "I think that once you've found a person that you're fond of... I mean a person who's fond of you, too, and likes you enough to be interested in your character... Well, I think that's just as important as college is, and even more so. That's what I think." (Wilder, 71-71).
I like this line because it shows how much George and Emily like each other. And I think that that is one of the blessings that I was writing about up at the top.

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Favorite Line:
Emily: I can't bear it. They're all so young and beautiful. Why did they ever have to get old? Mama, I'm here. I'm grown up. I love you all, everything. - I can't look at everything hard enough (Wilder 105).
I chose this passage because Emily is realizing how much she takes for granted, and how much she loves her family. It's kind of relatable because we don't always realize how much our families mean to us and we don't always notice how much we love them. We never look at life hard enough to realize how great life actually is.

Big Idea:
My big idea for our town is: Don't take life for granted. Most people are like Emily and take life for granted and don't realize how much they love their friends and family. She doesn't realize how great her life was until she died and was revisiting her life. She noticed in her after life how every moment was significant; which she didn't notice in her actual life. Everyone should live in the moment because this is the only life we get.

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Big Idea: My big idea for this book would be that the little things will be the things you remember the most.

Golden Line: "I can choose a birthday at least, can't I?--I choose my 12th birthday," (Wilder 100). I chose this because Emily's mom told her not to pick a good day because you will regret it so Emily didn't pick a very important day and she picked a not so very important day so she won't regret it as much.

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Big Idea: "Life goes on by fast and we need to live each day to our fullest"(Wilder 108). I choose this big idea because it tells us to live our life with purpose. Everyday goes by in a blink and before we know we are old and about to die. I feel like Our Town is trying to tell us to live each day with great joy and a purpose.

Golden Line: “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?” I really like this golden line because it shows us how we don't realize how we are living our life every day. We don't take every minute that its going to be our last minute. We have the perspective that we have tomorrow but truly we don't know if we will have tomorrow. We need to live in the present not in the future.

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Favorite Line:
Emily: "'I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. (Wilder 108)"'

Big Idea: We never have enough time to live and love and look at one another because we get distracted and never have enough time.

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Big idea:
I think the big idea for this book is that you should live life while you have it and be grateful for the small things.
Golden line: "
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?”

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Golden line: "There´s something way down deep thats  eternal about every human being." (Wilder 88)
Big idea: life goes by in a flash so always remember the little things

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Big Idea for Our Town:  You are only given your life here on earth once, so treasure it with all your heart before the eternal part comes.
I chose this big idea because Our Town shows us exactly what life means to everyone after you lose it. Emily shows us. The Stage Manager also talks about the eternal part of human beings multiple times in the book. Once your life is done, you can't go back and try to treasure it more. You are eternally in the eternal. However, the eternal part that the Stage Manager talks about will stay with you. Thornton Wilder makes that very clear to us.
Golden Line: "We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars... everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings" (Wilder 87 - 88).

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Favorite line/ Golden line:

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? - every, every minute? (Wilder 108)
I like this line because it's true. People take life for granite and don't realize that they don't have forever. This line is kind of scary because we don't realize life while were in it, maybe sometimes. In the book, Emily wants to go back and live a memory but when she goes back, she wants to leave and never go back again.

Big Idea:

My Big Idea is...........Live life while you have it and enjoy it. I say this because most people try to go through life/events/things quietly and calm and they don't enjoy most things. This Big Idea also ties into the play because Emily doesn't realize life or enjoy it most of the time.

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BIG IDEA: Take every moment of every day to cherish and be with people you love. This is the big idea of the play because it is very important because time goes so fast and you don't know how much longer you are going to have before you go.
GOLDEN LINE: “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?” (Wilder 108)

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"I think that once you’ve found a person that you’re very fond of . . . I mean a person who’s fond of you, too, and likes you enough to be interested in your character. . . . Well, I think that’s just as important as college is, and even more so. That’s what I think."

"This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying."

"[P]eople are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome."

"I never felt so alone in my whole life. And George, over there – I hate him – I wish I were dead. Papa! Papa!"

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?”

"We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. "

“There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.”

"Y’know the dead don’t stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth—and the ambitions they had—and the pleasures they had—and the things they suffered—and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth "

“Take me back—up the hill—to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good bye, good bye world. Good bye, Grover’s Corners…Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking…and Mama’s sunflowers. And food and coffee…Oh, Earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you…”

“There I was in the Congregational Church marryin’ a total stranger.”

“An awful lot of sorrow has sort of quieted down up here. People just wild with grief have brought their relatives up this hill. We all know how it is. And then time…and rainy days…and sunny days..n’ snow…We’re all glad they’re in a beautiful place and we are coming up here ourselves when our fit’s over.”

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Favorite Line(s):
Emily: "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it- every every minute ?" (Wilder 108)
Stage Manager: "No" (Wilder 108)
I like this line because it is very true. It is a little unsettling in a way, that we don't realize our own life, but I think this line makes us want to strive to understand life.

Big Idea: Realize life while you live it. I stole this from my favorite line, but I still think this hits the mark with what the play is about. Everybody wants more and more. A new car, a new TV, a new lawnmower, whatever it is, you try to get it. you get so focused in it that you don't realize life while you are living it.

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Big Idea: Every day is Important spend it like it is your last day. you never know what the future will bring you could live for one more day of live for 40 years.

Favorite line:
Stage Manager:  You don't only live life, but you watch yourself living it and as your watching it you see things that they don't. you see the future. (wilder 99)

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Big Idea Statement: Enjoy the little moments in life while they last, because when you look back on them, you will want to go back.

Golden Line: Rebecca: "It said: Jane Crofut; The Crofut Farm; Grover's Corners; Sutton County; New Hampshire; United States. But listen, it's not finished: United States of America; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; The Earth; the Solar System; The Universe; the Mind of God - that's what it said on the envelope (Wilder 46).
I chose this as my golden line because it shows how something so small in something so big is important to people. I think that is really important in this play.

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Big Idea Statement:
Are humans grateful for the life they have been given? Or are they too blind to see all the blessings they have been given? I think we are often to caught up in the World's drama or even our own to appreciate the life we have been given. People are usually too worried about what to wear and what they look to be able to see the more important stuff such as, our family, friends, and God.

Golden Line:
"No . . . I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people" (Wilder 109).

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Big idea statement:
Live your life to the fullest. Don´t forget how short and precious life is. It is such a gift from God! I think the reason Thornton Wilder wrote the play was to show what death was like and how much we don´t understand.
Golden Line:
¨There´s something way down deep that´s eternal about every human being.¨ (Wilder 88). I like this line because it points back to God and how he created heaven and life. And eternity.

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Golden Line: "They don't understand do they. No dear they don't understand"(Wilder, 111).

Big Idea: I think the big idea is, Live Life in The Moment and take time to notice the small things that seem unimportant.

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Big Idea:  you live life with out paying attenchin to the little things.

favorite line: emalie dont you rember, mother gibs- the legasy you left us? why it was three hundred and  fifty dollars
(wilder 96)

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Big Idea:  You don't realize what you have until you've lost someone you love. Everyday seems like repetition if you make it that way. It feels unimportant as you are in the moment but if you lose that person you were with, it makes all the difference.
Golden Line: "Pick the most unimportant day of your' life, it'll be important enough." that's a short line but it seems like Emily doesn't understand yet on how painful that would've been. And it was her birthday but because of her age that day probably got more and more unimportant. But she chose it anyway, seeing her parents there and knowing just how much they loved her probably made her feel that she took things for granted and that's why everything made her cry in the end.

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Big Idea: The big idea is that life goes way to fast. Once Emily died she wanted to go right back to earth but the dead told her not to because she would see the future and the people will not. Emily did not think it was true so she went to earth but she only stayed there for a very little bit.  Emily came back to the dead crying her eye balls out.

Favorite Line: George:¨Ma, I don´t want to grow old. Why´s everybody pushing me so?¨

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Big Idea:
Live every second like it is your last. I chose this because we see that Emily regrets some of the decisions that she makes before she dies.

Golden Line:
"No . . . I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people" (Wilder 109). I chose this line because I shows that Emily did not trust her mom before but after Emily goes back to the past she does trust her mam. he says this because she notices that people do not see everything and that they are sometimes blind to the world.

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Big Idea: My big idea for Thornton Wilder's Our Town is that every second of life is important. Every second that passes is important because that exact second will never happen again.

Favorite Line: "Oh Earth! You're too wonderful for anyone to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it, every every minute?" - Emily (Wilder 108)

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Big Idea: Do what your heart tells you is right. I think that George's heart was telling him not to go to agriculture school. If George had gone to agriculture school he might not have married Emily.
Favorite Line: "All that can happen in a thousand days"(Wilder 47). I like this line because I can relate to this line because you never know what's gonna happen. We could all die in 3 hours you just never know what could happen.

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Big Idea Statement: "Appreciate life and its little moments while you can." Throughout Emily's life, she didn't notice the little things. Like how she forgot about George's gift to her on her 12th birthday. Once she saw it, she remembered the significance of it. She kept living her life while not paying any attention to the smallest details to appreciate in life.
Favorite Line: "No... I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people" (Wilder 109). Emily took into account that people never really watch for the little things in life. They want to live fast and never want to stop and look at the stars. They only want to see when it's all gone.

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Big Idea Statement: Life seems unimportant while you are living it, but when it's gone you finally see how important it was. It is only when we are close to death that we look at everything on this earth with an importance. No one seems to see life until it is gone. Mother Gibbs mentions how even the smallest thing is important in life. I think this is very true. There are many people who live like it is their last day on earth, but when you are close to death any unimportant day would be enough for that person.
Golden Line: My favorite line from the play is, " They're wait'n. They're wait'n for something that they feel is comin'. Something important, and great. Aren't they wait'n for the eternal part in them to come out clear?"(Wilder 88). I chose this as my golden line because of the way Thornton Wilder mentions God in Act Three Monologue. I think that it is true for everyone in some part of them.

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favorite line: Emily: they don"t understand do they: Mrs. Gibbs: no dear they don"t understand

big idea: you only get so much time don"t waist it.

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Big Idea:  My big idea for Our Town is that every second counts. Emily didn't realize how important her life was until she looked back at it. Even though she chose an unimportant moment, she wanted relive it differently.

Golden Line: "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?-every, every minute?"
I chose this line because it shows how Emily realized how important every minute was, and she didn't see it until she died.

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Big Idea: Every day is important, so don't wast it. Some people wast there life doing bad things until it is to late and there life is over.
Favorite line: "No... I should have listened to you. that's all human beings are! Just blind people"(WILDER 109). I like this line because it is kind of true.A lot of people don't realize how great there life is until there life is over or a friend/family is gone.

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Big Idea:  No moment in life is unimportant. Life goes by so quickly when we look back on it, and sometimes we don't see the little things that are so valuable. If we live life to the fullest each and every day, we will not regret it.
Golden Line: "Emily, I feel that you're as good a friend as I've got. I don't need to go and meet the people in other towns"(Wilder 70). I like this line because it expresses the moment that George decides not to go to agriculture school, and to stay in Grover's Corners with Emily.

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Big Idea: I think a big idea for the play is Every moment in your life is important so don't waste a single second.

Favorite Line: "Look! Father Gibbs is bringing some of my flowers to you. He looks just like George, Doesn't he? Oh, Mother Gibbs, I never realized before how troubled and how... how in the dark live persons are. Look at him. From morning to night, that's all they are- troubled." (Thornton Wilder)

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Mrs. O's Favorite Line and Big Idea for Our Town

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Mrs. O's Favorite Line and Big Idea for Our Town

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Big Idea Statement: Even the smallest event of our daily life is inestimably valuable, because it can't be repeated. It doesn't matter how mundane this second Tuesday of 2019 may seem--it's the only chance I will ever have to live this particular twenty-four hours. That means love intentionally, love fiercely, and care deeply. Then, there will be no room for regret. There is no excuse for not caring...and I think that's what Our Town is all about.
Golden Line: Every line of this play is deeply meaningful to me, so I honestly don't have just one golden line, but here is one favorite that connects with my big idea: "Choose the least important day in your life. That will be important enough" (Wilder 100). Mrs. Gibbs says this to Emily when she's choosing to return to her past. She suggests that from the perspective of eternity, even a fleeting happiness will seem extremely painful, as Emily recognizes all of the things she couldn't see while she was alive.

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